Pontardawe

What is it like to live in Pontardawe?

Homes sold for a typical £201,725 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 97 of the 123 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Skewen, 7.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Welsh Government school list; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Pontardawe?

Homes in Pontardawe sold for a typical £201,725 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 48 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £194,375 from 72 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £317,000 15 sales
• Semi-detached £183,750 24 sales
• Terraced £120,000 8 sales
• Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole SA8 district, Pontardawe's main postcode district: a typical £210,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Pontardawe: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Pontardawe?

5 of the 133 postcodes now in use in Pontardawe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 72 homes sold in Pontardawe were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SA8 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Pontardawe?

Ofcom reports on 123 of the 133 postcodes in Pontardawe. At 97 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Which schools are in Pontardawe?

The open schools at the postcodes in Pontardawe. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Source: Welsh Government school list, read 27 October 2026. Each school opens its page on My Local School.

How far is the station from Pontardawe?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Pontardawe is Skewen Rail Station, 7.1 km away in a straight line.

• Skewen Rail Station Railway station 7.1 kmDrive
• Llansamlet Rail Station Railway station 7.4 kmDrive
• Neath Rail Station Railway station 7.6 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Pontardawe?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Pontardawe. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Pontardawe Primary Care Centre Phone 01792 863103 650 mWalk

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Pontardawe safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 614 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Pontardawe over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 15, burglary 7, possession of weapons 6, theft from the person 2, bicycle theft 2, robbery 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Pontardawe?

Council

Neath Port Talbot

Parliamentary constituency

Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe

Police force area

South Wales

Country

Wales

MP

David Chadwick (Liberal Democrat)

All 133 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.